Discover how advances in biomedical science have helped to diagnose and treat illnesses. In your first year you will develop a solid foundation of knowledge in the various disciplines of biomedical sciences including immunology, haematology, cell biology, human physiology, genetics, microbiology and pharmacology, which will prepare you for more advanced and specialised study. You will learn how to communicate academically and how to utilise best scientific practice when conducting hands-on research, and consider the role of ethics and health and safety.

At the end of your first year of study, you can choose to continue your multidisciplinary studies in biomedical sciences and gain a BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences award by studying modules such as: Infectious Diseases, Biology of Cancer, Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Immunology, Neuroscience, Medical Genetics and Blood Diseases. Or you can choose to study for a combined degree award by specialising in one of our four specific pathways:

BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences & Molecular Biotechnology
By looking at the biological process involving genetics and gene technology you will learn about the molecular advances in the treatment of disease and the processes used to make treatments.
Year 2 and Year 3 modules: DNA Technology, Introduction to Biotechnology, Medical Genetics and Medical Biotechnology.

BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences & Pharmacological Sciences
Discover how different drugs are used for the treatment of diseases and what effect they have on the body. You will also develop your understanding of pharmacological principles and how they inform the development of drugs.
Year 2 and Year 3 modules: Medical Pathophysiology, Pharmacological treatment of Disease, Advances in Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences & Medical Microbiology
You will study the various types of pathogen that cause infectious disease, and the strategies they use to attack the body. You will learn how to how to diagnose them and also the treatments available. You will also look at the global burden of infectious disease and the various worldwide initiatives underway to try and control this challenging threat.
Year 2 and Year 3 modules: Medical and Environmental Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Global Topics in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology.

Examine the sociology and psychology of children and childhood, focusing on the importance of play in the
development of children. You will be supported to develop your own career-focused learning pathway, involving working with children by exploring the fields of playwork practice, policy development, environmental design and organisational leadership and management. You will be able to apply your learning by taking part in a wide variety of supervised learning placements in the UK and abroad.

With the rising demand for mental health workers, you can make a difference in this rewarding career with those in need. You will explore a wide range of theories within psychology, mental health and counselling. This theoretical knowledge with hands-on opportunities to work in mental health settings will help you foster effective therapeutic relationships that can promote positive change for your clients.
With a variety of therapeutic approaches studied, you will be able to tailor the course to your individual career ambitions. Suitable for those working in mental health services wanting to further their knowledge and career, or for those wishing to enter the health and care professions.
You will explore psychotherapeutic models including cognitive and behavioural development and look at theories on how mental health issues develop across the lifespan. You will also learn how to develop your interpersonal skills in order to build counselling relationships between you and your clients - for example, those experiencing anxiety, depression and addiction.

Dietitians strive to provide the best possible nutritional care for clients with acute and chronic health conditions. Learn to interpret and communicate the science of nutrition and how to use dietary manipulation and food to treat disease and optimise health. You will gain practical experience in our state-of-the-art health science, clinical skills and catering laboratories. On successful completion of the course, you will be eligible
to apply for registration as a dietitian with the Health & Care Professions Council.
Funding
From 1 August 2017 there will be a new funding system for new students on nursing, midwifery and AHP pre-registration courses in England, with the system moving from NHS grants to student loans. Download the University Funding PDF below for more information.
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With a responsibility for protecting public health and upholding the maintenance of healthy environments,
environmental health practitioners play an important role in society. On this course, which is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, you will examine complex environmental health problems and learn how to formulate effective solutions. These solutions could involve enforcement, education or the issuing of advice while working in partnership with other agencies. You will be taught by environmental health practitioners experienced in key areas such as food safety and health and safety.

If you currently work or volunteer in health and social care and want to enhance your practice and career prospects, this is your opportunity to extend your knowledge of the sector and refine your practical skills. You will explore the context of your practice against a backdrop of changing local, national and political drivers. You will be encouraged to analyse your decision making and to reflect on your current practice, helping you to generate new ideas for use in your current role and for the benefit of patients and service users.

Gain a thorough understanding of the human body at the molecular and cellular level, and study disease pathology, pathophysiology, microbiology and clinical biochemistry. You will undertake two research projects, working with tutors from our biomedical science research centre. Through hands-on work you will undertake in our laboratories, you will gain an understanding of how the human body works and learn how to
use the very latest technology to diagnose and treat diseases. In your final year, you could choose to focus your studies in a specialist area before embarking upon an extensive research project aligned with your specialism and your course team's expertise.

If you already work in maternity care, or are about to start work in this profession, our course will help develop your skills in contributing to the health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies. Your will increase your knowledge of maternity care and hone the practical skills you will need in the workplace.

Qualify as a registered mental health nurse and develop the expertise to be able to support people with mental illnesses in their homes and specialist health services. Half of your time will be spent at the University honing your specialist knowledge, with the remainder on placements practising your skills in a supported healthcare environment. To assist your professional development, you will learn how to aid the
recovery of people with mental health problems while working alongside those in related health and social care professions, including adult nurses, social workers and dietitians.

Our course is ideal if you are working as a mental health support worker, or are in a related role, and you would like to develop and enhance your knowledge and skills in the field. By successfully completing our course, you will be able to offer a high quality service to the service-users/ patients and carers you work with.

Nutrition plays a key part in the promotion of good health and the primary prevention of diet-related illness in communities and populations. You will learn how to become a critically reflective practitioner throughout this science-based course, and gain practical experience in our state-of-the-art health science and catering laboratories. You will undertake work-based placements where you will be able to apply your expertise and refine your practical skills, and you will have the option of undertaking a sandwich placement in year three.

Our course will develop your knowledge of nutrition, public health and social care. It provides an opportunity to enhance your personal and professional development in relation to your role and work. You will explore how nutritional interventions can enhance clinical outcomes so you can continue to effectively contribute to the health of society.

If you are working as a support worker or assistant practitioner, our course will develop your knowledge of dietetics, nutrition, public health and social care.

Throughout your learning we will involve your current responsibilities and the issues faced on a day-to-day basis. Our course strengthens your interpersonal skills which are required for effective communication with a variety of diverse individuals and groups.

By learning the basic science of nutrition, you will understand how to influence and empower individuals to make informed food choices and life-style changes.

Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession which involves working with people to promote their own health and
wellbeing. You will learn to use physical approaches to promote, maintain and restore physical function. During your studies on campus and work placements, you will develop collaborative working skills, putting them into practice working with patients, their carers and other health professionals. Your course will encourage reflective practice to aid your professional development.

You will develop the skills to work in public health, a career that is hugely rewarding. By gaining the skills to work in this area, you will be helping people to live longer and healthier lives. Public health workers help to protect populations from disease and promote health so that people can go on to live long and healthy lives. You will explore the social model of health and the wider influences that impact on health and disease, such as education, poverty and geographical location.

This course, accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), will equip you with the expertise and confidence to manage an organisation's health and safety activities. Suitable for current or aspiring health and safety professionals, you will be taught by leading industry experts. You will expand your knowledge of safety, health and environmental management and control in an area you currently have responsibility for, or in an area that will suit your career ambitions. With our approach to teaching, you will learn and develop innovative methods for dealing with legislative challenges when managing health and safety issues.

Created in consultation with housing, mental health, addiction and other welfare agencies, this course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to help and safeguard vulnerable people, families and communities.

Prepare yourself for a richly rewarding career as a social worker and enjoy a range of employment options across a variety of sectors. You will study psychosocial themes and perspectives and also theories and policies relating to social welfare and the safeguarding of adults and children. You will complete extended placements in your second and third years, which will help fulfil part of the professional body requirements for registration. By integrating study with professional experience, you will develop the essential knowledge and skills required for a career in social work supporting diverse groups of service users.

Speech and language therapists (SLT) are privileged to work with people throughout their entire lifespan - from neonatal to end-of-life care. This course will enable you to qualify as an SLT in three years. As an SLT, you will provide assessments and interventions for communication impairments and difficulties with eating, drinking and swallowing. You will study a variety of subjects such as psychology, linguistics and speech pathology, and attend guest lectures from specialist clinicians and medics, which will help expand your professional networks and ensure your learning is current.

Gain the clinical knowledge and professional skills you will need to assess, treat and manage sports injuries. You will study a variety of sports science and therapeutic modules on this demanding and extremely rewarding course. In your first year, you will be able to register as a student member of The Society of Sports Therapists. Through supervised placements, you will build up the working hours required to register as a qualified sports therapist upon graduation.

Support workers play a crucial part in today's society. There's growing demand to work with a diverse range of clients, provide an increasing range of care, and positively contribute to the public's health and wellbeing. It's therefore important that you're equipped with the knowledge and experience to do just that.

Accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), our course is ideal if you are seeking to become a professional counsellor or psychotherapist. It will help you work towards accreditation with the BACP, and will help you develop a specialist role within your current occupation.

If you are a counsellor looking to top-up your qualification to an honours degree, this course will enrich your professional development and practice and offers a route to studying counselling at masters level. You will explore the philosophies, values and cultural assumptions underpinning key counselling perspectives. You will work in groups to review your counselling experiences and you will share ideas and thoughts on different
approaches in order to improve your practice.

Locally, nationally and globally, young people and communities are having to deal with difficult and challenging situations. You will develop the understanding and expertise needed to transform people's lives for the better while completing 800 hours of assessed practice placements and through studying an extensive range of taught modules. You will have the opportunity to work with individuals and groups anywhere in the UK or overseas, and gain a professional youth and community work qualification validated by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and recognised by the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC), which endorses professional qualifications for youth and community workers.

Postgraduate Courses (47)

Enhance your understanding of acoustics and the way noise can be controlled in the workplace, in buildings and in the wider environment. We offer the highly-regarded Institute of Acoustics (IoA) Diploma and the opportunity on successful completion to progress to a masters award by studying two research modules. Taught through lectures, laboratory classes and via our Virtual Learning Environment, emphasis will be given to studying the theory of acoustics and how this knowledge can be applied to develop practical solutions to noise problems.

Awarded by the Institute of Acoustics, our course aims to equip you with a thorough understanding of the nature of noise and the ways in which it can be controlled in the environment, the workplace and in buildings. Extending over 12 months, our course is taught through lectures, laboratory classes and via our web-based Virtual Learning Environment. There is an emphasis on relating the theory of acoustics to the solution of practical noise problems.

Develop your advanced health assessment and professional skills in order for you to work as an autonomous practitioner, providing expert clinical knowledge, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies in a variety of clinical settings.
Your learning will be client-centred and clinically focused, helping you develop the skills essential for the job of an advanced practitioner working in a primary or secondary care setting, or for any organisation where advanced diagnostic skills are required.
If you study for the postgraduate diploma, you will be required to undertake the core modules listed on the left in order to prepare you for an advanced practitioner role. On successful completion of the postgraduate diploma, you may want to progress on to the masters, where you will be expected to complete an extended study module lasting an additional year. You will explore a topic applicable to your area of practice, refining your expertise and underlining your leadership potential to employers.
Research Excellence Framework 2014
Research Excellence Framework 2014: 40% of our research in the Psychology unit was judged to be world leading or internationally excellent.

Develop your advanced health assessment and professional skills in order to work as an autonomous practitioner. With your expert knowledge, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies,
you will be able to work in a variety of clinical settings.
Your learning will be client-centred and clinically focused, helping you develop the essential skills required by an advanced practitioner working in acute, primary or secondary care settings, or for any organisation where advanced diagnostic skills are required.
If you study for the postgraduate diploma, you will undertake the core modules listed. On successful completion of the postgraduate diploma, you may want to progress on to the masters, when you will complete an extended study module lasting an additional year. You will explore a topic relevant to your area of practice, refining your expertise and underlining your leadership potential to employers.

Develop your advanced health assessment and professional skills in order to work as an autonomous practitioner. With your expert knowledge, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies,
you will be able to work in a variety of clinical settings.
Your learning will be client-centred and clinically focused, helping you develop the essential skills required by an advanced practitioner working in acute, primary or secondary care settings, or for any organisation where advanced diagnostic skills are required.
If you study for the postgraduate diploma, you will undertake the core modules listed below. On successful completion of the postgraduate diploma, you may want to progress on to the masters, when you will complete an extended study module lasting an additional year. You will explore a topic relevant to your area of practice, refining your expertise and underlining your leadership potential to employers.
Research Excellence Framework 2014
Research Excellence Framework 2014: 40% of our research in the Psychology unit was judged to be world leading or internationally excellent.

Our course aims to equip health practitioners with the knowledge required to lead and develop practice, diagnostics, therapeutics, decision-making and clinical management. Your learning will be client-centred and clinically focused, helping you develop the skills essential for the job of an advanced practitioner working in a primary or secondary care setting, or any other organisation where advanced diagnostic skills are required.

Forge your own social care career by choosing from a wide variety of topics that can take your role in the direction you want. Hone your expertise and discover the subjects aligned to your interests and future responsibilities, such as leadership and management or working with substance abuse.

You'll become more informed about these areas, and you will gain the confidence and knowledge to take on advanced social care practices. This will prepare you for promotion to managerial or specialist roles supporting and safeguarding adults, young people and children.

Learn from an experienced teaching team who are qualified in areas across the health and social care professions, including social work and adult and mental health nursing. We also invite senior specialist practitioners from local authorities to deliver lectures that provide the latest knowledge and real-world insights from their field.

Establish a strong foundation to your social care career by learning the essential practices and policies that will support your assessed first year as a social worker. You'll bring examples from your job to your learning, providing you with a deeper understanding of the situations and challenges you are encountering by fostering a more critical way of thinking about your own practice and development.

Learn from an experienced teaching team who are qualified in areas across the health and social care professions, including social work and adult and mental health nursing. We also invite senior specialist practitioners from local authorities to deliver lectures that provide the latest knowledge and practical insights from their field.

This highly flexible course provides the first part of what can become your own tailored and rewarding career progression route. You'll be able to keep returning to learning as you feel ready, and undertake further study with our Postgraduate Diploma and MA in Advanced Social Work Practice.

Designed for those wishing to pursue a PhD in biomedical sciences and related areas, this research-focused course will advance your research skills as well as your understanding of research methods and data analysis. You will learn how to communicate science effectively by designing posters, developing your presentation skills and using social media to disseminate your findings.
From January until September you will concentrate solely on an extended research project, working alongside staff from our Centre for Biomedical Science Research to develop your practical expertise to an advanced level. You will have a wide variety of research options to choose from within molecular biology, microbiology, pharmacology and biochemistry.

Broaden your understanding of research methods and their applications within biomedical sciences. You will develop your expertise in a specific subject area of biomedical sciences by undertaking an in-depth research project working alongside researchers from our Centre for Biomedical Science Research.

Youth and community work is an area that is both challenging and in a state of flux thanks to a range of complex factors, including government policy, shifting ideologies and cultural or familial issues.

If you are a qualified adult nurse, this course will enable you to specialise as a district nurse and register as a specialist practitioner in district nursing and community practitioner nurse prescribing with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC).

You will develop a co-ordinated and holistic approach to your practice as a district nurse, helping you to meet the healthcare needs of the wider community and maximise life chances. As a specialist practitioner, you will have the confidence to make high-level clinical decisions in the provision and management of quality care.

Accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), this course will enable you to become a professional counsellor or psychotherapist. It will help you work towards practitioner accreditation with the BACP and could help you develop a specialist role within your current occupation.

Dietitians make a vital contribution to people's health and wellbeing. On this course, you will learn the theory and practice of nutritional science so that you can register with the Health and Care Professions Council as a qualified dietitian.

If you are already a practitioner working in a health or mental health role, this course will deepen your knowledge of supporting people with complex mental health issues that involve eating disorders. You
will explore contemporary nutritional, physiological and psychological perspectives and learn cognitive behavioural approaches to therapeutic treatment in this area.

Acquire the knowledge and skills needed for a career as an environmental health practitioner by analysing the five main intervention areas: housing, food safety, occupational health and safety, environmental protection and public health. You will develop your understanding of environmental stress factors and their effect on human health and safety, together with the legal and technical frameworks for controlling these risks.

Equip yourself with the expertise to contribute more effectively to the delivery of health and community care. You will increase your knowledge of new developments in the field, gain finely tuned time management and prioritisation skills and hone your understanding of the complex issues at the forefront of your specialist area.

Health and safety is an integral and important part of any organisation - whether you work as an operations manager, office manager, engineer or technician, you will be involved with ensuring a safe working environment for everyone. We will develop your knowledge of how different organisations use varying levels of safety procedures and you will assess their impact on the whole company.

Effective health and safety practices are integral to the success of any organisation. Whether you work as an operations manager, office manager, engineer or technician, you will be involved in establishing and maintaining a safe working environment. We will develop your knowledge of how different organisations use varying levels of safety procedures and you will assess their impact on the company as a whole.

You will gain a thorough grounding in the practical skills needed to be an effective counsellor. Encouraged to become a self-reflective practitioner, you will explore your feelings, attitudes and personal relational issues in order to evaluate and further refine your abilities.

Engage with innovative theory and contribute to the advancement of human medicine through your own research. This course has been designed to significantly expand both your practical expertise within the field of medical biochemistry and your transferable skills. Exposure to a range of techniques, including microscopy, spectroscopy and diagnostic assays, and their associated theories will significantly develop your understanding of medical biochemistry.

Build on your existing biomedical sciences knowledge and skills to become a specialist in medical microbiology. You will practise working autonomously in the laboratory during the large practical components
of the course, using your thorough theoretical grounding as the driver for your research. You will have the opportunity to experience a range of techniques across microbiology and molecular biology, and the topics you will study, from the role of microbiology in medicine to molecular microbiology and epidemiology, will give you specialist knowledge and a variety of skills applicable to a range of careers in the field of biomedical science and microbiology.

Investigate the effects of pathogens on the body, the intricacies of the human immune system and the impact of infections. You will explore current topics in medical microbiology and biotechnology, studying
specific global health issues and the involvement of biotechnology in medicine, and you will collaborate with experts in our new Centre for Biomedical Science Research.

Deepen your expertise in dietetics and nutrition on this flexible course. You will be able to choose from an array of modules and shape your learning to your professional interests and aspirations. By tailoring your studies, you will be able to develop a specialism to really enhance your career prospects.

You will focus on developing real-life practical skills, including techniques for embedding guidelines, protocols and behaviour change, interpersonal communication methods, how to deliver seminar presentations and how to pitch for funding from a health commissioner. Depending on your studies, you will learn in our Clinical
Skills Suite, interpersonal suites, professional kitchens or physiology labs.

You will have the opportunity to reflect on your day-to-day role and consider your fellow students' alternative approaches to the evidence-based practice you deliver. This will enable you to critique and improve your effectiveness and fully immerse yourself in the latest nutritional knowledge. Some of the modules can be studied online and others studied on campus, allowing you to fit your course around your career.

Help tackle the big public health issues of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease by becoming an expert in food and nutrition. By analysing how lifestyle affects food and nutrition, the vested interests of the food industry and the role of food and nutrition in disease, you will gain a solid understanding of current issues, enabling you to make a positive difference in a variety of nutrition-related roles around the world.

With accreditation from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Health & Care Professions Council, your course will provide you with the necessary expertise and skills to become a qualified physiotherapist.

Modern family life has been transformed by high divorce rates, the decline of the extended family, easy access to alcohol and drugs and other social and cultural factors adversely impacting on many of today's young people. By developing your 'play therapy toolkit' competencies to an advanced level using mediums such as storytelling, music, dance and drama, you will be able to work with children who have serious social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.

As a qualified play therapist, you will already be aware of the importance of self-expression and creative mediums in therapy. Whether you are aiming for a promotion within your current field or want to explore a particular play therapy topic, this MA will enhance your existing therapy skills through research, allowing you to further improve the lives of vulnerable children.

Our course develops the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to promote and protect public health and wellbeing. You will be equipped to fulfil a variety of roles in health promotion and public health, working in local authorities, health services or the voluntary sector.

Our course develops the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to promote and protect public health and wellbeing. You will be equipped to fulfil a variety of roles in health promotion and public health, working in local authorities, health services or the voluntary sector.

Develop the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to promote and protect public health and wellbeing. You will be equipped for a variety of roles in health promotion and public health, working for
local authorities, health services or in the voluntary sector.

This is your opportunity to become a specialist community public health nurse. You will explore the theories linked to health behaviours and public health promotion, and you will be able to assess the health needs of individuals, families and the wider community to promote good health and prevent illness. As a health visitor, you will have a crucial role to play in ensuring young people have the best start in life and you will help to implement and drive forward public health initiatives.

Unlock the skills needed to become a specialist community public health nurse on the third part of the nursing register. It will enable you to undertake leadership roles and develop the expertise to influence, drive and implement public health policies.

Train to become a specialist community public health nurse on the third part of the nursing register with a specialism in school nursing. The course will enable you to undertake leadership roles and develop the expertise to influence, drive and implement public health policies.

Interest in sport and exercise in the UK has increased significantly, and those working in the industry require a diverse set of skills. This course will enable you to apply your knowledge of science and medicine to help athletes recover from injury and reach their physical peak and also aid the general population in maintaining healthy lifestyles.

Become a qualified play therapist and help children come to terms with traumatic events in their lives. Through the use of play, you will give children the confidence and opportunity to express themselves
during their time with you.

Develop advanced laboratory research skills to progress your career in the field of toxicology. You will work with experts from our new Centre for Biomedical Science Research to enhance your understanding of the interaction of toxins with molecular, cellular and organ targets and also the role of the immune system in responses to toxins.